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Flooding & Land Slides (Natural Disasters)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a flood?

a)

A type of food.

b)

A type of floor.

c)

When a dry piece of land becomes even dryer.

d)

When a dry piece of land becomes submerged in water.

2.

Floods can be caused by a number of things. What may cause a flood?

a)

Heavy rain

b)

Ice melts

c)

Hurricanes

d)

Droughts

3.

There are 3 types of flooding. What are they?

a)

Flash card floods

b)

Slow on-set floods

c)

Rapid on-set floods

d)

Flash floods

4.

How can YOU help prevent floods

(a)  

5.

Have you ever planted a tree?

a)

Yes at home

b)

Yes at School

c)

No never

d)

Yes

6.

What is another way to describe Landslides?

a)

Slidelands

b)

Gravity

c)

Slidemuds

d)

Mudslides

7.

What human activities can cause Landslips?

a)

Milking cows

b)

Mining

c)

Sheep farming

d)

Deforestation

8.

What else may cause a Mudslide?

a)

Heavy Rain

b)

Soil Erosion

c)

Volcanic Eruptions

d)

A Pandemic

9.

There are a number of definitions we can use for gravity. What is GRAVITY?

a)

Gravity is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center.

b)

Gravity is a pulling force that works across space. What goes up must come down.

c)

Gravity is a force which tries to pull two objects toward each other.

d)

Gravity is a milkshake.

10.

Do all Landslides move at the same pace?

(a)  

11.

A landslide

a)

never moves

b)

can moves a few mm per year

c)

always moves at the same pace

d)

can move at 100 miles per hour

12.

To avoid the risk of a land Slide

a)

build on a Slope

b)

build on a mountain edge

c)

avoid building in a drainage path

13.

If a landslide take place under water what is it called?

a)

Sea or Ocean Mud Slides

b)

Snorkel Landslide

c)

Underwater

d)

Submarine Landslides

14.

Floods can be

a)

very powerful

b)

very destructive

c)

dangerous

d)

fun

15.

If a dam wall broke very suddenly this would cause a

a)

Slip and Slide

b)

Waterfall

c)

Flash Flood

d)

Water park

16.

Which is the most dangerous type of flood?

a)

Slow on-set flooding

b)

Flash flooding

c)

Flash Mob

d)

Flooding

17.

Can a flood occur in a desert?

a)

No

b)

Yes

c)

Monthly

d)

Weekly

18.

Landslides can occur naturally or because of human activity

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Scientists believe that other planets have not experienced landslides

a)

False

b)

True

20.

The largest landslide ever recorded is called

a)

The Mudslide

b)

50 million years ago

c)

The Heart landslide

d)

The Lung landslide